Summary of Fast Training Of Sinusoidal Neural Fields Via Scaling Initialization, by Taesun Yeom et al.
Fast Training of Sinusoidal Neural Fields via Scaling Initialization
by Taesun Yeom, Sangyoon Lee, Jaeho Lee
First submitted to arxiv on: 7 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary Medium Difficulty summary: This paper explores the initialization of sinusoidal neural fields (SNFs), a type of neural field, to accelerate their training process. The authors find that the standard initialization scheme for SNFs is suboptimal and propose a new method called “weight scaling” that can increase training speed by 10 times. Weight scaling involves multiplying each weight (except for the last layer) by a constant, which provides a significant speedup over various data domains. This method outperforms more recently proposed architectures and offers a well-conditioned optimization trajectory. The authors conduct extensive theoretical and empirical analyses to understand why weight scaling works effectively, resolving the spectral bias and providing a faster training process. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary Low Difficulty summary: Scientists are trying to make computers smarter by using special kinds of math problems called neural fields. One type of these fields is called sinusoidal neural fields (SNFs). The problem with SNFs is that they take a long time to learn, which makes it hard for people to use them. In this paper, researchers figure out how to speed up the learning process by changing the way they start the math problems. They call this new method “weight scaling”. It works really well and can make the computer learn much faster than before. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Optimization
